Supports for telephone hand sets



Feb. 28, 1961 B. INGRAO SUPPORTS FOR TELEPHONE HAND SETS Original FiledFeb. 25, 1955 INVENTOR. die 6' 1;:

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SUPPORTS FOR TELEPHONE HAND SETS Benedict Ingrao, 2435 N. 73rd Ave.,Elmwood Park, 111.

Original application Feb. 25, 1955, Ser. No. 490,641. Divided and thisapplication Dec. 9, 1957, Ser. No. 701,374

6 Claims. (Cl. 179-146) This invention relates to novel supports adaptedfor use in connection with telephone hand sets or the like, and isparticularly directed to novel easily mountable brackets, supports andhangers adapted for use on or adjacent to telephone.

This application is a division of my co-pending application for patent,Serial No. 490,641, filed February 25,

It is an object of my invention to provide novel supports for telephonehand sets and the like which have novel means thereon for mounting thesame with respect to telephone boxes, or with respect to supportingwalls or panels, and which have upwardly and outwardly extendingbrackets and holders upon which a telephone hand set may be rested,especially during intervals when the normal connection switch is toremain closed in communicating and talking position.

It is a further object of my invention to provide novel easily mountablebrackets and holding devices for telephone hand sets and which havequickly mountable means for securing the same to telephone wall boxes orwall plates, and which have depending hangers and hooks thereon adaptedto receive hand sets or the like.

Other and further important objects of my invention will be apparentfrom the following description and appended claims.

On the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a telephone wall bracket having myhand set supporting means mounted thereon, and illustrating the hand setin the position in which it is normally temporarily placed duringmaintenance of communicative connection.

Fig. 2 is a side elevational view thereof looking at the left hand sideof Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged exploded elevational view of a modified form of mydevice and illustrating the means for engaging the upper portion of awall mounted telephone box or wall mounted plate and the means forsupporting a hand set.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of a modified form of my hand set hangerembodying an integral depending hook illustrated as mounted on a wallmounted telephone box.

Fig. 5 is a side elevational view thereof looking at the left hand sideof Fig. 4.

As shown on the drawings:

Numeral designates the typical telephone wall box made of metal which isnormally secured to a wall by a plurality of screws or bolts (notshown). Said box has integral parallel side walls as shown, and a frontwall 11 as indicated.

Numeral 12 designates a mounting plate which is preferably apertured attwo spaced apart points, as indicated in Fig. 3, said apertures beingadapted to receive releasably threaded screws 13, one of which saidscrews is illustrated in Fig. 3. Said screws 13 are adapted tothreadingly engage suitable spaced holes in the top of the telephone box10, to thereby mount my device in the manner illustrated.

tates Patent ice A pair of upwardly extending plate-like brackets 14 aregradually enlarged and widened toward the upper ends and have theirlower edge portions suitably secured, for example by welding, to theupper face of the mount- 5 ing plate 12, said brackets being spacedapart a short distance as indicated in Fig. 1. Each of said brackets hasan upwardly opening recess 15, which is partially defined by a lowersubstantially horizontal straight edge as indicated. Said recesses 15are of a width slightly 10 greater than the transverse dimension of atelephone hand-set, so that such hand-set may be quickly and easilyreleasably positioned and held in said recesses 15 in the manner asillustrated in Fig. 1.

Numeral 16 designates an upwardly extending flange,

15 which is preferably integral with the horizontally extending mountingplate 12. Said flange 16 preferably has two spaced apart holes therein,through which suitable screws are extended to engage a stationary wallor the like, to thereby provide an optional additional means of securingmy device in the prescribed and illustrated position.

The forward edge portion of the mounting plate 12 carries a downwardlyand upwardly inclined lip or trough 17 which may optionally be formedintegral with said plate 12, said extension or lip 17 providing aconvenient holding means for a pencil or other writing instrurnent.

Numeral 18 designates a substantially right angled auxiliary metalbracket which has a depending leg 19 which is adapted to be inserted bydownward pressure in the space between the rear part of a conventionalphone box and the adjacent wall. Said auxiliary bracket 18 has a pair ofdepending extensions or lugs extending downwardly from its oppositeends, said end lugs being preferably formed integral with the auxiliarybracket 18 and being bent downwardly and at right angles to the plane ofsaid auxiliary bracket. The length of the auxiliary bracket 18 and thedistance between the inner faces of the depending'lugs 20 issubstantially equal to 40 the width of a conventional wall box, so thatsaid depending lugs or extensions 20 will frictionally engage theopposite sides of a telephone box when said auxiliary bracket is placedon the top of such wall boxes. Said auxiliary bracket 18 is providedwith a pair of suitably spaced holes 21 which correspond to thepositioning and spacing of the screws 13, so that said screws 13 willthreadingly engage said holes 21 when the mounting plate and itsattached parts are secured in position upon the said auxiliary bracket18. I desire it to be understood that said auxiliary bracket 18 may beomitted entirely in instances where it is possible to mount the mountingplate 12 and the parts carried thereby directly to the top of a phonebox, for examples as illustrated in Fig. 1.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have illustrated a modified form of my invention inwhich a transversely extending bracket having a lower mounting plate 22and an integral apertured upwardly extending leg or flange 23, isremovably mounted upon a conventional telephone wall box. In this formthe upwardly extending apertured flange 23 may be additionally securedwith respect to the adjacent wall by a pair of screws 24, as illustratedin Fig. 4. Said bracket as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 has a pair ofdepending lugs 25 formed integral with its opposite ends and which areso spaced apart that the same will frictionally and releasably engagethe opposite side walls of 7o portion of a hand-set in the mannerillustrated in Fig. 4.

A telephone hand-set is adapted to be easily and quickly hung on hook 26during temporary periods, for example when additional persons are calledto answer the phone or during periods when the user finds it necessaryto use both hands for other purposes. It will be understood that saidmodified form of my device illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5 is adapted to bequickly and easily mounted by downward pressure on the upper endportiongof a conventional wall box, in which position it will normallybe held by the aforesaid frictional engagement of lugs 25 with the sidewalls of said box.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and as manyapparently widely diflerent embodiments of my invention within the scopeof the claims could be constructed without departing from the spirit andscope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in theaccompanying specification shall be interpreted as illustrative and notin a limiting sense.

I claim:

1. A support for telephone hand sets adopted to be attached to atelephone wall box and comprising a mounting plate having integralspaced apart depending lugs at the edges of said plate; a pair ofhorizontally spaced upwardly extending bifurcated brackets connected attheir lower ends to said mounting plate and having portions thereofextending outwardly of said mounting plate; said upwardly extendingbifurcated brackets being adapted to receive a telephone hand set, saidlugs being adapted to releasably engage the upper end portion of atelephone wall box to thereby hold said support upon said telephone wallbox.

2. A device for supporting telephone hand sets adapted to be attached toa telephone wall box and comprising an apertured mounting plate,integral spaced apart depending lugs on the edges of said plate; a pairof horizontally spaced upwardly extending bifurcated plates connected attheir lower ends to said mounting plate; said apertured mounting plateanad said lugs being adapted to releasably and frictionally engage theupper portion of a telephone wall box to thereby hold said device uponsaid wall box.

3. A device for supporting hand sets adapted to be attached to atelephone wall box as recited in claim 2 and having a verticallyextending apertured flange connected to its rear edge, said flange beingadapted to receive screws or the like to secure said device with respectto a wall.

4. In a device for supporting hand sets or the like adapted to bequickly mounted with respect to a wall box, a transversely extendingapertured plate having a rearwardly extending apertured flange on saidplate; a pair of upwardly extending horizontally spaced apart bracketsconnected at their lower ends to said mounting plate, each of saidbrackets having an upwardly opening recesstherein; a plurality ofdependingextensions on the edges of said mounting plate and adapted toengage the upper portion of a wall box; and releasable means forengaging the upper portion of said wall box to secure said platethereto.

5. A device for holding telephone hand sets adapted to be attached to atelephone wall box and comprising an apertured upper mounting plate,said plate having integral extensions thereon; a pair of horizontallyspaced upwardly extending brackets on said mounting plate, said bracketshaving upwardly opening recesses; a second angular apertured mountingplate having integral depending lugs adjacent its end portions, saidlugs being adapted to engage the sides of a telephone wall box; andscrews means for connecting together said first mounting plate and saidsecond mounting plate.

6. A device for releasably holding telephone hand sets and adapted to beattached to a telephone wall box and comprising a mounting plate havingspaced apart apertures therein; an integral upwardly extending flange onthe rear edge of said mounting plate; a pair of horizontally spacedapart brackets secured on the forwardly extending portion of saidmounting plate, the upper end of each of said'brackets being bifurcatedto provide a recess adapted to receive the intermediate portion of ahand set, said mounting plate being mountable on the upper per tion of atelephone wall box.

No references cited.

